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Kurtis Alexander

Kurtis Alexander

Reporter at San Francisco Chronicle

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  • English
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  • Nature & Wildlife
  • Environment

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sfchronicle.com

California voters likely to see historic $10 billion climate bond on November ballot - San Franci...

After a decade of punishing droughts, catastrophic wildfires, record heat waves and devastating floods, Californians will probably decide in November whether to continue the state’s historic levels of spending on climate change. A bond measure, agreed upon by legislators over the weekend, would allow the state to borrow an unprecedented $10 billion for projects that harden California’s defenses to the impacts of the warming climate. Much of the money would also go toward environmental and social…
5 months ago
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Record amount of preventative fires set in California this year — b...

California has seen a record amount of prescribed burning on federal lands over the past year, helping reduce wildfire risk and perhaps tempering this year’s young but already worrisome fire season — though many say more should be done. The U.S. Forest Service announced this week that burn crews had intentionally set fire to 63,878 acres in California since the start of the federal budget year on Oct. 1. The effort surpasses the previous annual high of 63,711 acres burned in 2018. The uptick in…
5 months ago
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Most California orphaned mountain lion cubs can’t make it in the wi...

When two mountain lion cubs were found stranded at an apartment complex in rural Fresno County earlier this year — their mother nowhere to be found — wildlife officials weren’t sure they could successfully return the young cats to the wild. They decided to try anyway. The 4-month-old kittens, weighing 22 pounds and much too small to survive on their own, were taken into custody in the Coalinga area by the state Department of Fish and Wildlife in what would become a months-long bid to prepare th…
5 months ago
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Cruise ship that inspired 'Love Boat' sinking in California delta -...

​​This past week, as an old, giant cruise ship sank in the California delta, so too did the dreams of Chris Willson. The longtime boatman and his wife spent a decade living aboard the idled luxury liner called the Aurora in a far-flung slough 15 miles from Stockton where they worked to restore the 293-foot-long vessel to its former glory. The ship, which Willson bought in 2008 after responding to a curious ad on Craigslist, has the distinction of bringing cruising to the masses following World W…
6 months ago
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California's General Sherman, world's largest tree, just got a heal...

California wildfires aren’t the only thing killing the state’s majestic giant sequoia trees. So is a little-known bark beetle. Researchers in the Sierra Nevada, the only place where the giant sequoia naturally grows, have found several of the world’s largest trees unexpectedly infested with beetles, some dying from the attacks. While the mortality numbers are small, especially when compared to the toll of the wildfires that wiped out as many as 20% of all mature sequoias in 2020 and 2021, the em…
6 months ago
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Cost of California's largest water project in decades rises to $20 ...

The cost of building a controversial 45-mile tunnel beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to help move water across California has risen 25% in four years — to $20.1 billion, easily the state’s most expensive water project in decades, according to new estimates. Still, the administration of Gov. Gavin Newsom says the project is well worth the price. The long discussed delta tunnel, advanced by the state, is seen as a way to safeguard water shipments to 27 million people. State officials…
6 months ago
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California's second-largest reservoir is now full - San Francisco C...

Lake Oroville, the second-largest reservoir in California, reached capacity on Monday for a second straight year after another relatively wet winter. The rising waters come as state reservoir managers have been reducing outflows from the lake in recent weeks — as winter inflows tailed off and the threat of downstream flooding waned — allowing the reservoir to slowly fill to its current 899-foot elevation, or 3.52 million acre-feet of water. “This is great news for ensuring adequate water supply…
7 months ago
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Major California dam removal continues with demolition of largest d...

The historic dam-removal project on the Klamath River, along the remote California-Oregon border, is hitting another milestone this week as demolition of the largest of four targeted hydroelectric dams gets underway. Iron Gate Dam, a 173-foot dam in Siskiyou County, was scheduled to start being disassembled by work crews Wednesday, an endeavor that is expected to continue until September or October. The 62-year-old dam is the third so far to face the wrecking ball. The small Copco #2 Dam was rem…
7 months ago
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California water: Crackdown on Tulare Lake basin for over-pumping -...

A stretch of California that’s considered one of the fastest-sinking areas in the nation, where farms have pumped so much water from the ground that the land has slowly collapsed, is on the verge of state intervention. In a first-ever move, California regulators are looking to step in and monitor groundwater pumping in the Tulare Lake subbasin, an 837-square-mile hydrological region flush with cotton, hay and almonds between Fresno and Bakersfield. Because of heavy pumping, some places in the ar…
8 months ago
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Supreme Court won't hear bid to shrink Cascade-Siskiyou monument - ...

The Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, a sweeping expanse of mountains and valleys along the California-Oregon border, has avoided the threat of being downsized after the U.S. Supreme Court, on Monday, declined to take up two challenges to its expansion. Logging interests and several counties in Oregon had asked the justices to strike down an addition to the monument in 2017, claiming President Barack Obama improperly made the designation because Congress had previously set aside the land for t…
8 months ago
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California's plan to cut water draws by cities, farms upheld by cou...

​​A state policy that seeks to protect California’s major rivers and creeks by cracking down on how much water is pumped out by cities and farms can move forward despite widespread opposition, the Superior Court has ruled. The long-awaited decision on what’s known as the Bay-Delta Plan denies 116 claims in a dozen separate lawsuits that seek to undo a 2018 update to the policy, most of which are from water agencies saying the limits on their water draws go too far. The 160-page verdict, released…
8 months ago